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(My personal recommendation for people wanting to get into visual arts: Your output will be worth more as a physical product if you get good at using traditional media like spraypaints, paints in general, markers, cayons, pens, pencils, charcoal, whatever. And it might cost a bit more in the long run to produce, but I think you'll impress a lot more people by being able to do these things wherever you go, regardless of electricity or internet problems than you would by needing a bunch of digital stuff to even have work to show. That, and even in the worst case, when a traditional artwork is ruined, you still have the ashes/ruins/scraps to show for it. It doesn't completely and entirely cease to exist. I can't explain how much these feelings bug me over time. Biggest downside I can think of is that traditional media doesn't have an undo function.)
Tuesday, 10-May-11 16:13:52 UTC from web-
@retl and undo is the only reason why I am even somewhat capable of drawing anything at all. When I attempt to draw, I end up spending the vast majority of my time undoing and redrawing the same lines over and over again.
Tuesday, 10-May-11 17:34:46 UTC from web-
@starshine I used to do that a lot when I was trying to polish up lineart. At some point, I realized I hated doing line art, I'm not very good at it in the first place, and just wanted to get straight on to shading/coloring things, so I started to do a rough sketch and then shade/color directly from there. The awkward thing about this approach is that a lot of what I like looking at the most focuses on strong lineart and solid blocks of color, and solid blocks of color doesn't quite work very well if you don't define very clearly where the blocks start and stop beforehand. :B So I'm kinda always at odds with a lot of the things I draw. Undo is still really handy for those tiny mistakes I make time to time, though. But the lack of undo is why I have a hard time doing things in traditional media myself, yes./
Tuesday, 10-May-11 17:39:29 UTC from web
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